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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1918
Page
6
The Fourth Liberty Loan reminds citizens that the war effort requires the entire nation, not just uniformed soldiers. It likens the struggle to a long game between Authority and Democracy, urging selfless duty, steadfast support, and enthusiastic participation from every citizen to strengthen the nation and its Armed Forces.
An old advertisement extols Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a thirty five year reliable remedy for catarrh. It claims bloodstream action clears mucous surfaces and promises general health improvement after short use. It urges bond for testimonials and lists CHENU & CO. Toledo Ohio and druggists as sellers.
A wartime notice urges vigilance against potential German or Austrian disloyalty in the United States. Citizens are told to report suspicious acts or words to the Virgilance Corps of the American Defense Society, the police, or the local department of justice.
Speech urges all Americans to feel the strain of war time effort. It stresses hard work self sacrifice and full cooperation to win the war. The speaker cites the fourth Liberty Loan and calls every citizen to give utmost energy and money to support victory.
The piece urges farmers to back the Third Liberty Loan and to support the Fourth, tying agricultural prosperity to national defense. It stresses active farmer involvement, protecting democracy, and resisting state overreach, urging continued cooperation between farming communities and government in wartime.
A fifty dollar Liberty Bond will pay war bills for a second, buy 1,000 cartridges or 100 band grenades, or 104 rifle grenades, or first aid kits. It will feed one soldier four months, provide vaccines, windproof gear, or antitoxins, and fund supplies from bayonets to gas masks. A hundred dollar bond buys field shells, T N T, and clothing for overseas service, plus medical ether and antiseptics.
W R Dodizon dean of Louisiana College of Agriculture will succeed Dean H L Russell at the United States Food Administration staff. Russell, recalled to Wisconsin, departs to meet pressing duties after leading delegations to Wisconsin dairy districts.
Grace Dixon, Federal Reserve Director for Women in the Seventh District, urges men and women to unite in Liberty Loan efforts. She outlines women's roles across schools, clubs, and booths, and calls for coordinated work with men's committees, stressing shared credit and nationwide homefront responsibility.
A wartime appeal calls for increased casualties to strengthen resolve and sacrifice. It urges royal communities and cities to boost food production and to spend more on Liberty bonds, emphasizing men dying on the front and citizens' duty to support the war.
The six pounds per person monthly voluntary wheat ration is rescinded with no per capita limit. The public is urged to follow an 80/20 rule mixing one pound of substitutes with every four pounds of wheat flour. Victory Mixed Flours include one fifth substitutes. Victory Whole Wheat and Victory Graham Flour, containing 95 percent or more wheat berry, may be sold without substitutes and labeled accordingly.
Shippers of Bay oust obtain a license at once with farmers shipping hay produced by themselves exempted to the Food Control Act. Applications for license should be made to the License Division, U S Food Administration, Washington, Dt.
Amsterdam dispatch cites two shots fired at Leon Trotsky, Bolshevik minister of war and marine, in Kursk. Kiev reports via Leipsic Abend Zeitung claim a single rifle shot failed to strike him.
Dramatic poem by Louis Albert Lamb recalling colonial resistance to British rule and linking it to American support for wartime bonds. It frames the Revolution and World War I as parallel struggles, praising American resolve and urging readers to buy the Fighting Loan bonds. Strong historical figures and events are invoked to bolster Democratic wartime solidarity.
The article notes rapid advances in cyclone knowledge, enabling sailors to forecast regions, paths, and wind directions. It describes storm records as practical tools for steering vessels to avoid gales and even use cyclones for benefit. It explains the cloudburst phenomenon and how saturated air and updrafts form a funnel of vapor that finally breaks.
A north Atlantic region called the Sargasso sea is defined by latitudes 20 to 35 north and longitudes 40 to 75 west. It features nearly no surface circulation, allowing abundant Sargassum weed to drift across mid-ocean currents like the Gulf Stream.
The Dismal Swamp is a marshy tract extending from south of Norfolk Virginia into North Carolina, covering about 150000 acres and measuring roughly 20 by 10 miles. It has been partially cleared and drained for agriculture, with a canal linking Chesapeake Bay to Albemarle Sound. The Drummonds Lake area within the swamp is noted as Thomas Moore's Lake of the Dismal Swamp.
A modern substitute for the time honored bell chimes uses tuned tubes or pipes installed in belfries with electric hammers striking them. Magnets are controlled by a simple keyboard, allowing anyone with basic piano knowledge to play, and the system operates with minimal current.
Figures reveal an estimated 24,000,000,000 dollars to be spent in the current fiscal year on preparation and maintenance of fighting forces. The article details how Liberty Bond funds are allocated, mentions troops and rifles produced, and outlines major ordnance expenditures through June 30, 1918 and projections for 1919, illustrating what Uncle Sam does with bond money and wartime needs.
An article details the U S Army quartermaster buys since the war began, noting vast quantities of flour sugar bacon beans tomatoes and rice along with a large clothing bill from April 1917 to August 1918. It emphasizes the scale of wartime logistics and army maintenance.
A wartime appeal urges every citizen to buy Liberty bonds, arguing each life justifies supporting the bond drive. The speaker recalls a World War II era London bombing incident to emphasize sacrifice, urging readers to invest despite personal cost and to consider the nation’s defense as paramount.
A rural community note urges Farmers' Clubs and Grange meetings to energize Liberty Loan participation. It links war casualty reports to the need for public duty and fundraising through Liberty Loan bonds, promoting local discussion to spur enlistment in war effort.
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